Enterprises have been willing to dip their toes in the cloud by migrating applications that are not mission-critical, saving their “crown jewel” applications for a future round of cloud migration. That allows the enterprise to start taking advantage of cloud benefits without exposing themselves to unnecessary risks by running mission-critical or line-of-business applications in an environment that does not fully match the functionality, resilience, or performance of their on-prem production environments. The Challenges of Migrating Applications to the Cloud When it comes to mission-critical application migration workloads, concerns about performance (IOPS, throughput, and latency) cause enterprises to pause and evaluate their options. Public clouds can only guarantee certain levels of IOPS and latency requirements. Sometimes, IT leaders discover that their applications do not work as well in the cloud as they did on-premises. Unpredictable cloud bills have also proven to be a...

  How To Reduce Public Cloud Storage Costs. Download the full slide deck on Slideshare . John Bedrick, Sr. Director of Product Marketing Management and Solution Marketing, discussed how SoftNAS Cloud NAS is helping to reduce Public Storage Costs. In this post, you will get a better understanding of the data growth trends and what needs to be considered when looking to make the move into the Public cloud. How To Reduce Public Cloud Storage Costs The amount of data that has been created by businesses is staggering — it’s on an order of doubling every 18 months. This is really an unsustainable long-term issue when we see what IT budgets are growing at compared to businesses. IT budgets on average are growing maybe about 2 to 3% annually. Obviously, according to IDC, by 2020 which is not that far off, 80% of all corporate data growth is going to be unstructured — that’s your emails, PDF, Word Documents, images, etc. — while only about 10% is going to come in the form of structured...

  “Get your On-Premises NAS in the Azure Cloud”. Download the full slide deck on Slideshare . Looking to transition your enterprise applications to the highly-available Azure cloud? No time/budget to re-write your applications to move them to Azure? SoftNAS Cloud NAS extends Azure Blob storage with enterprise-class NAS file services, making it easy to move to Azure. In this post, we will discover how you can quickly and easily: – Configure Windows servers on Azure with full Active Directory control – Enable enterprise-class NAS storage in the Azure cloud – Provide disaster recovery and data replication to the Azure cloud – Provide highly available shared storage Get your On-Premises NAS in the Azure Cloud My name is Matt Blanchard. I am a principal solutions architect, we’re going to talk about some of the advantages of using Microsoft Azure for your cloud storage devices inside the cloud and helping you make plans to move from your on-premise solution today into the cloud of...

  In this post AWS EBS Best Practices using SoftNAS Cloud NAS . AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes are block-level, durable storage devices that attach to your EC2 Instances. EBS Volumes can use as your primary storage device for an EC2 instance or database, or throughput-intensive systems requiring constant disk scans. AWS EBS volumes exist independently from your EC2 instances and can retain after the associated EC2 instance has been deleted. AWS provides various types of EBS volumes allowing you to tailor the right volume to meet your budget and application performance requirements. SoftNAS AWS EBS best practices Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. EBS is not about any specific device type, it’s about providing EC2 instances with highly available and durable storage volumes. To achieve this, each Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone. ...